A Jungian Sense of Place: Bollingen and The Tower on the Marsh
This Jungian Life Podcast
Joseph Lee, Deborah Stewart, Lisa Marchiano
4.7 • 2.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Carl Jung, Marie-Louise von Franz and Christiana Morgan all dedicated time, soul and imagination to a peculiarly Jungian form of architecture: the stone tower.
This week host Deborah Stewart is joined by Dr. Martin Gledhill, an architect, author and Jungian scholar, and filmmaker Hilary Morgan, the granddaughter of Christiana Morgan, an eminent American psychologist who collaborated with Jung on some of his most important work.
Deb, Martin and Hilary explore Jung’s Bollingen Tower and Christiana Morgan’s Tower on the Marsh, discussing the profound expressions of psyche through place. Both towers render psyche in art, carvings and stone. They are more than just physical places, they are architectural explorations of Self and soul. The two towers are what Martin calls “restless places”: dream-like in ambience, shaped through an ongoing, iterative process, and surrounded by differing, sometimes conflicting, accounts of their evolution.
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Read Martin Gledhill’s book, The Bollingen Tower: Constructing a Jungian Sense of Place
Watch (for free) The Tower of Dreams - a film by Hilary Morgan
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| 0:00.0 | I think what's interesting about Jung's sort of psycho-architectural history, if you like, |
| 0:05.5 | is that the prototypes, if you like, or the typologies of Bollingen, |
| 0:13.6 | which you might consider as the cell, the castle, the tower, |
| 0:18.3 | are all associated with very, very potent, what you might call |
| 0:24.1 | animations, anima encounters. |
| 0:27.1 | So I think that's, to me, rather enchanting how this other, in his case, St. Animal or Feminine, |
| 0:36.5 | is just present at these kind of key architectural moments, |
| 0:42.0 | as much as emotional moments. |
| 0:46.3 | Welcome to this Jungian life. |
| 0:48.8 | Three good friends and Jungian analysts, Lisa Marchiano, Deborah Stewart and Joseph Lee, |
| 0:55.6 | invite you to join them for an intimate and honest conversation that brings a psychological perspective to important issues |
| 1:01.5 | of the day. I'm Lisa Marchiano, and I'm a Jungian analyst in Philadelphia. I'm Joseph Lee, |
| 1:09.6 | and I'm a Jungian analyst in Virginia Beach, Virginia. |
| 1:13.0 | I'm Deborah Stewart, a Jungian analyst, on Cape Cod. |
| 1:39.8 | Today, it's a wonderful treat to have two guests talking about Jung and Towers, and Jung's Annalysand, Christiana Morgan, who was inspired by Jung's Tower in Bowling and built her own |
| 1:46.6 | tower on the marsh in Newburyport, Massachusetts. So let me tell you a little bit about Martin |
| 1:55.1 | and about Hillary. Martin is an architect, and he's a former senior lecturer in England at the University of Bath, |
| 2:06.9 | and he also holds a master's degree in Jungian Studies from Essex University, |
| 2:13.0 | and he's combined both of his incredible interests in architecture and Jung's Tower and other places in Jung's life where architecture and a sense of place influenced Jung so strongly. |
| 2:29.0 | And Jung's Tower is a sort of an application of a lot of his ideas, the symbolic and the spiritual. |
| 2:38.5 | He's given lots of lectures in Jungian communities around the world. |
| 2:43.7 | And this book, which I'm about to mention, please order it, |
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